From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@solarflare.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: xenbus_backend_client.c / xenbus_client.c merger
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:17:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1FF6FEE.9B06%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171893626.4099.27.camel@moonstone.uk.level5networks.com>
On 19/2/07 14:00, "Kieran Mansley" <kmansley@solarflare.com> wrote:
> Although I don't know the full history, it looks like at some point
> linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_backend_client.c was
> created to hold "backend only" code that would otherwise be in
> linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c.
>
> However, the code in xenbus_backend_client.c isn't currently specific to
> the backend - it just happens to be that no frontends use it. At least
> that's how it looks to me.
Currently we have a model that frontends supply memory for ring buffers,
which backends map into their kernel address space. Where is the memory
coming from that your frontend maps? Is it appropriate to be using grant
table entries to refer to and map that memory?
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-19 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-19 14:00 xenbus_backend_client.c / xenbus_client.c merger Kieran Mansley
2007-02-19 15:17 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2007-02-19 16:08 ` Kieran Mansley
2007-02-19 16:50 ` Keir Fraser
2007-02-19 17:07 ` Kieran Mansley
2007-02-19 17:48 ` Keir Fraser
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